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The Indianapolis Star WEATHER TODAY Thondershowers High, 85; Low, 63 Yesterday High. 78; Low, 63 TODAY'S CHUCKLE "Preil: ftHV nril thn wife. "Ilir hnhy bus Junt mv allowed he matches. Wli.it ilo?" I'n il: "Her, ur my cigarette lighter." "Where the spirit of the Lord their is Liberty" 11 Cor. 3-17 VOL.

53. NO. 359 Tl'ESDAY MORMNd, MAY 195(5 ME 1 1 Dfllvrrrd hf Cfcfflflf (dully onlyl: B3r ir wtk If In Mrlm Comity, 7c tlirwhfrt in Imllina. FLOOD ROUTS 2,000 FAMILIES '500' To Run Tomorrow As Scheduled Flee To Safely From Flooded Homes Workers Sandbag J5ig Eagle Creek In Growing Peril Flood 1 I Glance KisiiiK flood walcrs on While Eivcr ami lti Eftgle Creek last niiii forced the evicuttion ol liiniilit's. in southwest Marion ('oiiniy, raising (lie total evacuees to 2,000 lamilicv Hundreds ol oilier Ltmilics were malting, raids, lo move tods as the mmpaging Hie Etgle Creek threatened to bfeift HirOttgfi MMMlbtgl 00 ''s ('asl bank Xhil was in Hie area of Mimics, la Street hut wider arras would he inundated.

Indianapolis was two Hinds surrounded In waler at I a.m. todav, and might become an island if waters continue In rise, stutc police reported, Huh one road, Intl. lie was open to the west of the city. The White ijiscr was reported at a itftge ol I I.H feet late Inst night and still rising at Ndhlcsv illc, imi the rate ol rising was slacking there, Indianapolis Motor Speed WSJ', officials said tin- Mio Mile Race will be run as scheduled tomorrowi despite (lie fact (he Infield is a urinal (iiagmire. City mid county schools, nianv ol lliciu closed yesterday! will be open today as usual.

Rapidly rising waters in Big Eagle Creek brought new threats to thousands oi homes In was tern and outhtro Marion County early this morning as voluntear WOrktrs tolled wilh trucks, shovels and sandbags lo stein tiir raging tide. Damage rose into the millions of dollars in the worst flood to bit the Indianapolis area since Ihe disaster of March, L913. home at 3131 Chase Street. Loading a refrigerator into a truck (at right), the Jamas Johnson family prepares to evacuate its home al 3015 South Coffee Street. (Star Photos by Frank H.

Fisse) Paddling to safety (at left) from a flooded homt are (left to right) Arthur Gullett, holding Kathy Denny, 2 years old; rYrs. George Board, 3019 Harding Street, holding Charles Denny, 7 months old, and George Board. The Boards rescued the young children from their grandmother's Rain Turns Infield To Quagmire By JEP -CAOOC star Spurts Editor Speedway officials said early today that the 500-Mile Race Still is set for 11 a.m. tomorrow despite continued rains which have turned the infield and much of the other pat king space into a quagmire, Flood condition! at the Speed-v ay yesterday washed nut any Chance ol additional qualifica- The IVovl Vespa Special driven by Paul llUtM of Ingle-vvoml, I was back in the race again as Owner Lew Welch arrived in the city and said that vestcntav's rains had waehed away his outfit's squawk against the Speedway, Welch said that if other ears had been -even a chance to qualify but the second Novi had been denied one, he would not run either one. "1 guess the weatherman straightened everything nut for us," Welch siiid.

"This re-moved all the obstacles and ill compete." jjons, with 12 cars awaiting time tnals when the deadline came. Albert W. Bloeniker. public relations director, said the race still is definitely "on" and any postponement announcement is unlikely before tomorrow morning. BLOEMKER xIO, could rain a lot yel and we still could be able to have a race." Earlier in the evening, alter widespread circulation of a rumor that the race would have to be delayed, Anton Hulman Speedway owner, issued a statement saying the preparations to hold the race at the regular time were going on as scheduled and no consideration was being given to postponement.

Only once in the history of the famous speed classic has it had to be postponed, in 1915 when the late Ralph DePalma wa: the winner. Chief Steward Harry Mc-Qulnn said qualifying dehnitely ended as of 6 p.m. last night because seepage of water through the bricks left pud lies of water standing in the middle the front straightaway right in the 'groove" and obviously ade the track unsafe. Veteran drivers hacked up this opinion of McQuinr. and Referee Harlan Fengler.

TIIKKK BULL, however, was some question about the exact nature of the starting field. That was because although Chief Mechanic Jean Marcenac stuck by his announcement that the Novi Vespa Special qualified on opening day by Paul Russo of Inglewood, would not start the race, the car still had not been withdrawn officially from the race in writing. Marcenac showed signs of wavering when he and aides pushed tne still unqualified Novi Automotive Air Conditional Special back out onto the track apron late yesterday alternoon Turn to Page IS, Column 7 Homling Power Is Two thousand fSffllHei had been evacuated I mm then homes In midnihi, As waters rose lloBJ Oig Eafla raah sa4 Wta Rh ir, huadraas Mhsr famllai ba can lo pack op anil move out. An smfriency peoclsinstloi of Msyor Phillip Bayl pul Indianapolis policemen on duty, THE) ui RE ed bj civil dSfCnU ioier, a large cnil detense disaster new. Hoy yta Tra pped Fa ily Saved By A I tic Aerial Photos by James Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Pilot) U.S.

52 south of Traders Point is partially submerged by the overflowing Eagle Creek A grain elevator (top left) seems to be floa.mg amidst the swirling water. (Star 20 Schools Endangered By Floods Twenty city and county schools were periled yesterday as turbulent waters poured into basements forcing evacuation of 900 pupils at one school and threatening many others. More than 12.000 nunils either remained at home or were forced to leave their classrooms as rampant waters rushed in. At. School 9.

407 Fulton Street, Red Cross boals and heavy trucks rescued 900 youngsters imprisoned In their classrooms. A TOTAL OF 10 city elementary schools and Emmerich Manual Training High School, together with 10 county schools, were closed because of the flood conditions. However, officials of both city and county schools said schools will be open today as usual. All Catholic schools remained open yesterday. First city elementary school to close was School 71.

3347 Turn to Page Column 7 The Weal her loe row Says: Actress A i r-K i i a a thinks the win ner of the SOn-Mile IJace may not want to kiss her because she has a cold. Cold, schmold. who cares Indianapolis Partly rlourlv. warm and humid with occasional thundershowers today and tomorrow. Indiana Partly cloudy, warm and humid with showers by afternoon or evening today and tomorrow.

Key ers would permit up to to be spent, Bayt said. Most severely hurt during the early stages of yesterday's floods was a one-mile-squarc area between 10th and Washington streets, and College and Oriental avenues. The water rose as the Pogue's Run storm sewer, which drains 7 Lebanon Flood Worst Since 1913 Scouts, Salvation Army volun- tesrs, Had Cross workers and hundreds ol psrseni who ii.iii pf oi Ploturaa On Page .14 oilier Plcturai pKf I I pitched in to do what thay could, The Marion County sheriff's office mobilized of its 7.) men or all-night duty. T'lir VVr alher BUTSSU expected Turn to 1. 4 oliiinn I Seabold finally broke a hole in the ceiling and the lanulv gained safely in a small Ihree-foot-high attic.

They were rescued at 0tS0 a m. when a Wanamaker ire Department boat arrived. Police rescued Tony Mm-rello, 17, Brookside Avenue, who was swept under a htiv Irom which he had alighted at Arsenal and Brooksida avenues. The gasping Monello, al- urn to Pane olumn 4 ism frii rhoioi OVERFLOW Parts of Lebanon and surrounding areas battled the worst floods since 1913 yesterday as heavy lains forced all streams in Boone County over their banks. Elsewhere in Indiana, with the exception of Indianapolis.

Hood damage was not too serious, although many communities along the Wabash and White rivers have been warned to expect some Hooding during the next several days. Flash floods from smaller streams in Central Indiana r.iiiscil Hie most trouble. More than six inches of rainfall in Lebanon during the 48-hour period ending at 8 a.m. eastern and northern sections of the city, was overoaded and backed up. But partial relief for this section is scheduled with a "high priority" storm sewer east of the Pogue's Run storm artery, Bayt said.

It would re-reive run off from an area bounded by Washington Street. "isli 3E3MLrX JwIhIMS kflfl Ramsey in plane owned by Corporation, George Cokain, Mini NO liiso in thf southern pari of Ihe state, Hie week-end dOWnpOUC beat the rie strawberry crop into the ground, and fanners I eared it would remain loo muddy lo pick the homes. Several major highway! were Turn lo Page .1, ('wliiinii IHOHLAND INTERSEC TION i KSEBIMm: afc ljiv Residents in flooded areas here yeslerdaj escaped death but seveml persons including (amity of seven on the Southeast Side a I I drow oed The (annly of MiltOR Seabold, It. 9, near Buck Cieek, awoke to find water snkls deep in the living room. By 8:30 a.m.

the water had risen chest deep Seabold anil his wife were forced lo hold their live children IS months to 10 of age --in the air. PEooOKO HV I I i hi City To Seek Sewer Fund Hike vesterday sent the waters of Prairie Creek spilling over its banks and into several flf the city's icsidcntial areas. THE BOONE COUNTY Chap-ter of the American Red Cross helped ev acuate a dozen families from their flooded homes, and Mayor Max towards personally directed relief cpeiations. Household goods of a numbei ol families were collected by National Guard trucks and stored in the Lebanon armory. William T.

P.rannon, Red Cross disaster chairman, and his aides touted the worst flooded residential aicas in boats. Pleasa.il Run Paikway, Dorman Street and Sherman Drive. At the same time, City Engineer William R. Hunt said plans will be submitted Thuis-day to the Board of Public Works for new storm sewers In a recently annexed area on the Northeast Side containing Bacon's Swamp. Other areas where the city plans nloim sewers are in the East 32d Street and Washington Boulevard area; West 14th and 12th streets section near Speedway, the Troy Avenue and Rural Street area on the south and Ritter Avenue and East 10th Street on the east.

James C. Courtney, president of the sanitary board, said many of the obsolete combination storm and sanitary sewers, constructed years ago. were overloaded. Courtney said the cost of replacing the sewers would he 'tremendous" and "probably impossible" at any time in the near future. There were no reports of injuries.

Losses to Roone County farmers are exected to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars Corn and soybean crops in many icrently-planted fields will have t( be replanted when the watei.s recede. MltTllGA.V fllllllVsiEsisaSHBkBlH tjHwjB The city will go before the 1957 Slate Legislature to double ils bonding powers for the construction of storm sewers in a move to ease the chance of future flood emergencies, Mayor Phillip L. Bayt aid vesterday. Bayt admitted the present storm sewers are grossly inadequate but added, "No amount of sewers would have helped the flooded condition brought on by the torrential week-end Earlier the Mayor had in-, ipaCtSd flooded areas through-cut the city. His aides at City Hall received hundreds of complaints from home owners, who Buffered water damage, demanding more and larger sewers.

A total of $6,000,000 in sewer projects now are being constructed or planned, he said, under the Board of Public Works. But if this financing authority were transferred to the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, its broader taxing pow INSIDE TODAY'S STAR IKE PICKS NEW SECRETARY- Fred A. Secton will succeed Douglas McKay as Secretary of Interior Page 4 MORE HOOSIER ROAD FUNDS SOUGHT-Battle launched in U.S. Senate to save $324,100,000 In highway money for Indiana p0ge 5 FIRINGS UPHELD Supreme Court lets stand lower court decision that railroad workers whose religious beliefs forbid them to join labor unions may be fired Page 13 Campbell 26 Food 7 Theaters 12 Comics 16 Obituaries ..21 Weather 10 Crossword 20 Radio-TV 15 Werner 14 Editorial 14 Sports 22-24 Women 6-9.